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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
John Charles Polanyi
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Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
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What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
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Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
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The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
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The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
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The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.
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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
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Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
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